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Donald Trump e Vladimir Putin
Summit in Alaska ran “very well” – but no one announced positive conclusions. Trump and Zelenskyy will talk on Monday.
It was a “hand full of nothing.” The presidents of the United States, Donald Trump, and Russia, Vladimir Putin, abandoned Alaska after a summit held on Friday with a focus on Ukraine, where both have praised progress but without identifying concrete results About a.
At Elmendorf-Richardson Air Base, after a meeting of almost 3 hourswere at a joint press conference which right to questions – No details about the content of the conversations.
Following the meeting, both praised the progress achieved and, according to the US President, were “very few questions” to solve.
“We had an extremely productive meeting and We woke up many points. Just a few. Some are not very important, but One of them is probably the most important“,” Said the White House leader, without any details, just adding, “We haven’t gotten there yet, but we have a good chance of getting there.”
Donald Trump indicated that he will immediately enter contact com European leaders and members of NATO, as well as with the Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, to put them aware of the content of the conversations.
In an interview with Fox News, still in Alaska, he added that the deal to end the war in Ukraine: “Now it really depends on President Zelenskyy for this to be done. And I would also say that European countries need to get involved a little, but it depends on President Zelenskyy, ”he said, without realizing the White House leader. There is no “closed agreement”admitted.
Already on Saturday morning, the president of Ukraine announced that he accepted an invitation from Donald Trump: the two will meet next Monday em Washington.
Vladimir Putin commented by his side that “the conversations took place in a constructive atmosphere of mutual respect ”, Including the part of the conflict in Ukraine, also describing discussions as “very thorough and useful.”
Speaking alongside the American homologist, Putin stressed that they are gathered all conditions so that the two leaders end the conflict in Ukraine “as soon as possible” and Appeared to Kiev and to European countries to accept the summary’s conclusions “with a constructive spirit”.
He also asked them to refrain from “backstage provocations or intrigues” that mine the progress achieved.
As one of the rare news of the meeting, the Russian President said agree with Trump in relation to safety guarantees required by Kiev as a condition for peace. “We are ready to work with it,” he noted, once again without details.
Kremlin’s leader said that Russia is “sincerely interested in finishing” the warbut clarified, as he has done on numerous occasions, that the solution of conflict must be “solid and lasting”, eliminating what Moscow designates as deep causes, alluding to Kiev’s neutrality, his demilitarization and rejection of the NATO adherence process.
Putin also commented that, If Donald Trump were the US President in 2022, the war in Ukraine would not have begun: “I’m quite sure it would have been the case. And I can confirm it.”
When Trump suggested that he expected to review Russian President “very soon,” Putin replied in English “next time in Moscow ”, in a relaxed tone. “I imagine this might happen,” retaliated the American leader.
Contrary to the programmed, the meeting alone of Russian and United States leaders was extended to the heads of Washington and Moscow diplomacy, Marco Rubio and Sergei Lavrov respectively, as well as the White House Steve Witcoff and the Kremlin Yuri Ushakov counselor.
In Alaska, there was no nomination on the Ukrainian leader’s participation in a next meeting, previously defended by the US President and admitted by Kremlin, if there were progress at this meeting.
Donald Trump, said on Saturday that “all” prefer to go “directly to a peace agreement” and not “a mere ceasefire agreement” to end the “terrible war” in Ukraine.
